Shiri2007-03-04 04:02:03
http://www.sirlin.net/archive/games-with-a-purpose/
I was just reading this guy's site yesterday - he has several articles on game design and skill in gaming. I followed the link to one of his articles on "Yomi Layer 3" from a Magic the Gathering strategy site. While I was filtering through some of his other articles, I came across this video. (Warning: it's about an hour long.) Just to summarise it, it's about how humans can do some things computers can't, which is why things like CAPTCHAs are generally pretty effective, and how some companies get around it - he references things like porn companies that want to spam copy pasting the CAPTCHA of email account things to their porn sites and making people complete the CAPTCHAs to get to the next image. He goes on to explain how this kind of thing can be put to use by making people do it while they play - for example, they apparently have a game set up to have people label images with captions such that visually impaired people can access the web better via screen-readers, and they do this by having people play a game where they're given images and have to hit upon the same word as a randomly determined partner for points. The guy estimates that they could have all images on google image search labelled in about 3 months given 5000 people playing this game based on some statistics from people already playing it.
This is pretty old I think, but it's interesting anyway.
I was just reading this guy's site yesterday - he has several articles on game design and skill in gaming. I followed the link to one of his articles on "Yomi Layer 3" from a Magic the Gathering strategy site. While I was filtering through some of his other articles, I came across this video. (Warning: it's about an hour long.) Just to summarise it, it's about how humans can do some things computers can't, which is why things like CAPTCHAs are generally pretty effective, and how some companies get around it - he references things like porn companies that want to spam copy pasting the CAPTCHA of email account things to their porn sites and making people complete the CAPTCHAs to get to the next image. He goes on to explain how this kind of thing can be put to use by making people do it while they play - for example, they apparently have a game set up to have people label images with captions such that visually impaired people can access the web better via screen-readers, and they do this by having people play a game where they're given images and have to hit upon the same word as a randomly determined partner for points. The guy estimates that they could have all images on google image search labelled in about 3 months given 5000 people playing this game based on some statistics from people already playing it.
This is pretty old I think, but it's interesting anyway.
Shiri2007-03-06 15:22:25
Actually, having gone through the rest of the site in more detail (some pseudo-articles are cleverly disguised in his blog section 'cause he didn't think they were properly article-length or whatever) I wonder if any of the admins here have ever read this guy's stuff.
Daganev2007-03-06 17:50:24
neat, though I havn't read it, just wanted to support such threads.
Shiri2007-03-07 02:29:21
Yeah, no one is replying to it. 
Drathys2007-03-07 13:37:05
From memory, that "yomi layer" thing is about outsmarting the competition in a game, by thinking on levels of what they are going to do next / what they expect you to do, is it not?
My internet is playing up, so I'm not going to click the link.
My internet is playing up, so I'm not going to click the link.
Shiri2007-03-07 13:48:52
More or less.
